White House shares list of 78 attacks it claims lacked attention, including massacres in Paris, Nice and Orlando

A vague list of attacks the White House inaccurately claims lacked media coverage, inspired dozens, if not hundreds of headlines for some of the deadliest of assaults in Europe and the United States.

The White House alleges each of the incidents was "executed or inspired by" the Islamic State but fails to note which of the 78 events did not receive enough attention in an attempt to defend President Trump's travel ban targeting predominantly Muslim countries.

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Trump said in a speech on Monday that American media was deliberately ignoring attacks.

In most of the purported terrorists' attacks, no one was killed.

A White House official says "most" of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media. pic.twitter.com/v66rcHxAFI

The inventory first reported by CNN begins in Australia, months after the initial Islamic State takeover in the Middle East. It continues through December 2016 with a multitude of overseas assaults, including well-documented attacks in Paris, Brussels and San Bernardino, Calif.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer promised the list during an Air Force One media briefing and provided within hours.

The list appeared rushed and "attacker" was repeatedly misspelled.

Police officers stand near a van, with its windscreen riddled with bullets, that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)

It shows that the White House believes 11 ISIS-inspired attacks took place on U.S. soil, including the Pulse nightclub massacre, the Manhattan bombing and the foiled New Jersey bomb plot that followed.

The White House identified a "knife attack" that took place in October 2014 in New York City as the first in the United States.

The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment to identify the incident.

The NYPD investigates a crime scene where two officers were wounded by a hatchet-wielding suspect in Queens. (John Roca/For New York Daily News)

During that month, then-Commissioner Bill Bratton said a hatchet-wielding assailant who wounded two NYPD officers in Queens was Muslim and had recently radicalized. The document fails to identify the perpetrator behind the "knife attack."

The attacker in the Queens incident, Zale Thompson, was shot dead by police.

The White House described most domestic attackers as a "US person" even when the suspect's name, such as Pulse gunman Omar Mateen, was publically available on news clippings, Google searches and police reports.

Omar Mateen was killed in a shootout with police after the Pulse nightclub attacks in Orlando. (Myspace)

In a brief defending a growing legal battle against the Trump administration's executive order, former Secretary of States Madeleine Albright and John Kerry told the 9th Circuit Court there was "no national security purpose" to merit Trump's travel ban.

Albright and Kerry were among several high-ranking foreign policy, intelligence and national security officials who defended Washington state's lawsuit against the Trump administration.

"Very few attacks on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001 have been traced to foreign nationals at all," they said in a joint brief. "The overwhelming majority of attacks have been committed by U.S. citizens."